The Today Show is busy this morning. The following authors are scheduled to appear:
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Today WAMU's Diane Rehm Show hosts Diane Ackerman, author of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (Scribner, $15, 0743246748).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, author of the memoir Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241).
Also on the Lopate Show, Margaret Atwood, author of The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Canongate, $18, 1841957178), and Karen Armstrong, author of A Short History of Myth (Canongate, $18, 184195716), talk about . . . myths.
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Today Oprah offers a sneak preview of the Broadway production of The Color Purple, based, of course, on the book by Alice Walker (Harvest, $14, 0156028352). The musical, which Oprah is "presenting," is scheduled to open December 1.
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Tonight Charlie Rose has a languid conversation with John Berendt, whose new book is The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press, $25.95, 1594200580).
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On the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald yesterday, All Things Considered talked with Michael Schumacher, author of Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury USA, $24.95, 158234647X).
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Yesterday on Fresh Air:
Yesterday NPR's Morning Edition had a peaceful conversation with B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862486).
- Rick Bayless will create recipes from his Mexican Everyday (Norton, $29.95, 039306154X), the companion volume to his PBS series.
- James Patterson, author of Mary, Mary (Little, Brown, $27.95, 031615976X), which goes on sale on Monday and continues the Alex Cross series.
- The apparently multi-talented Nicole Ritchie, author of the new novel, The Truth About Diamonds (Regan, $23.95, 0060820489).
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Today WAMU's Diane Rehm Show hosts Diane Ackerman, author of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (Scribner, $15, 0743246748).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, author of the memoir Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241).
Also on the Lopate Show, Margaret Atwood, author of The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Canongate, $18, 1841957178), and Karen Armstrong, author of A Short History of Myth (Canongate, $18, 184195716), talk about . . . myths.
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Today Oprah offers a sneak preview of the Broadway production of The Color Purple, based, of course, on the book by Alice Walker (Harvest, $14, 0156028352). The musical, which Oprah is "presenting," is scheduled to open December 1.
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Tonight Charlie Rose has a languid conversation with John Berendt, whose new book is The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press, $25.95, 1594200580).
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On the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald yesterday, All Things Considered talked with Michael Schumacher, author of Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury USA, $24.95, 158234647X).
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Yesterday on Fresh Air:
- Harvey Pekar, whose new graphic novel is The Quitter (DC Comics, $19.99, 140120399X), another autobiographical tome, which details Pekar's upbringing in 1950s Cleveland.
- Moises Naim, editor and publisher of Foreign Policy magazine, whose new books is Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy (Doubleday, $26, 0385513925).
Yesterday NPR's Morning Edition had a peaceful conversation with B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862486).